【人教版】2019年高考英语一轮复习练习：必修5-作业手册（含解析）.pdf

课时作业 （=+-） 【I】阅读理解 Tu Youyou, the 86-year-old Chinese pharmacologist （药理学家），received the Nobel rize in hysiology （生理 学）or Medicine in Stockholm on October 5, 2015. Tu is the first Chinese Nobel winner in hysiology or Medicine. Also, in 2011, she became the first Chinese person to receive the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. Based on a fourth-century traditional Chinese medicine （TCM） text, together with her team, she managed to get artemisinin （青蒿素）from sweet wormwood through trial and error and developed an important drug that has significantly reduced death rates among patients suffering from malaria. Tu delivered a speech titled Artemisinin is a gift from TCM to the world^,. She has urged more research into the benefits of traditional Chinese medicine and called for joint efforts worldwide to fight against malaria and develop more potential uses for TCM, which she called “a great treasure with thousands of years* history and empirical knowledge,^. She said that by combining TCM with modem scientific technologies, more potential can be discovered in searching for new drugs^^. According to the WHO, more than 240 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa have benefited from artemisinin, and more than 1.5 million lives are estimated to have been saved since 2000 thanks to the drug. Apart from its contribution to the global fight against malaria, TCM played a vital role in the deadly outbreak of SARS across China in 2003. Besides treating viruses, TCM has been most effective in diagnosing diseases, cultivating fitness, treating difficult multi-source illnesses, and using non-medicinal methods such as acupuncture （针刺疗法）and breathing exercises. However, TCM, which is based on a set of beliefs about human biology, is seldom understood or accepted by the West. Tus success will bring more recognition and respect for TCM, experts say. The Western world